KARACHI: The yellow metal price in global and domestic markets closed firm on some active trading activity while major stakeholders remained active in manipulating future price during trading sessions. The gold price would be remained under leading hands by August 2016, experts opined. Gold closed at $1,275 an ounce with $5 variation in value as compared to previous trading session and domestic bullion price witnessed same trend. Gold in tola term up by Rs 242 a tola to close at Rs 50,025 per tola while in grammage value, gold remained up by Rs 197 per ten grams to Rs 42,934 per ten grams, dealers said. The gold price remained in the hands of manipulators in India, Pakistan and other major gold buying countries, as they remained busy influencing current prices and futures on speculations. The potential buyers in India and Pakistan remained busy in hedging. The gold hedgers made some cautious deals. The general buyers remained on sidelines anticipating further easing in price in coming days on dollar-rupee parity. Buyers made deals according to their immediate needs. Local trading in gold remained dull on back of insignificant buying.